Workshop: ‘AI & Mental Health I.-The Politics of Digital Health'

Part of Meeting KI-Postdocs
(Prof. Dr. Tamar Sharin, Radbound University; Dr. Saheli Burton, University College London)

The deployment of AI systems in healthcare has raised significant concerns about rights and justice, but also hopes of new clinical and biomedical benefits. Focusing on mental health, in particular, the two workshops aim to shed new light on these much-debated topics by proposing a transdisciplinary approach to AI and mental health.

This first workshop aims to clarify the political, social and economic implications of AI deployment in global health policy. It explores the politics of digital health as involving questions ranging from the privacy and fairness of AI systems, to the global regulation of technology companies, to the set of normative assumptions about social good, justice, and health underlying digital health policies.